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MARCH 3, 2011

Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. One of those he mentioned was Hark (www.hark.com), an online site which allows users to find and share sound bites and audio clips from movies and elsewhere. Was Fouad with Redpoint at the time?

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MAY 5, 2010

Hollywood-based BUZZMEDIA , the parent company of Buzznet, Celebuzz, Stereogum, and a network of other sites, is in the midst of expansion, saying this week that it has hired on four new additions to the firm's advertising team. Heimowitz was most recently at Time, Inc., READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Hollywood-based Buzznet, an online site focused on entertainment and pop culture, has linked up with entertainment site The Superficial, the firm said today. Buzznet will take over all advertising sales for The Superficial, along with providing engineering, design, and marketing support for The Superficial. READ MORE>>

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MAY 12, 2009

According to Webvisible, PC Mall will offer its web advertising programs through its online destination site for business services, MyBusinessMVP. WebVisible helps businesses market their products online, and is venture backed by Sutter Hill Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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APRIL 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based Buzz Media , the online network of celebrity-focused web sites, announced today that it has inked a deal with OK! According to the two, they are in a joint venture focused on digital content, marketing, and advertising. Magazine is a celebrity news magazine and website. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based SVnetwork (www.svnetwork.com) announced the launch of a new, Internet advertising network. The firm was was formerly known as SocialVibe, and is backed by Redpoint Ventures, Jafco Ventures, and Pinnacle Ventures. What social media sites do you connect with? Jay, thanks for the time.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences.

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MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. It means that the investors can focus on the issues that one faces at that particular stage.

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MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Advertising clients include: Sony, Microsoft, NBC, and Clicker.

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